Word: graded
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...from campus to campus, but there is a basic procedure. The student pays tuition and enrolls in person, by phone or by mail; the college sends texts and assigns an instructor; the student takes midterm and final exams either at the campus or at a local school. The final grade is entered onto a transcript and most often goes toward a degree...
...sisters always played catch-and-throw, so I picked up lacrosse in fifth grade," Finn says. "My brother was also a real stud--he played everything--so I played basketball and games like that with him and his friends...
...three who won't eat in the presence of fur, fuzz or feathers. And there is the young man so traumatized by an incestual experience of his youth he "spent most of his waking hours in elaborate rituals of bathing." This is the stuff of grade B movies. It is also the stuff on which Wolpe comes to rely...
...screenplay, adapted by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their play of the same name, sounds like a third-grade primer on Constitutional Law, replete with metaphors for an eight-year-old. "You can't turn the law into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments...
...life in the long-gone frame house and the simple bliss it afforded. "You did things at home," he recalls. "There was never a day in my life that my mother was not at home when I got there. I spent time with my father. He had a fifth-grade education. He was the wisest man I've ever known...